D.B. of the Week - Rush Limbaugh

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Okay, so the Ebola scare is a hot button issue.

Everyone has an opinion especially since there are people leaving Africa and entering the United States while carrying the disease.

There is a real opportunity to spread fear in the situation.

There are plenty of people out there willing to spread the fear as well. Perhaps travel to the country should be slowed until we have a handle on it...but...

...Up steps Rush Limbaugh to grab the D.B. of the week honors as he addressed the issue.

Do you know why travelers are allowed into the United States while carrying the disease?

Well, according to Rush it's because Obama is working hard to pay back the people of the United States for...

...get this!

Slavery!

Yep, that's the crap that Rush was pedaling this week.

Obama so hates the country that he is allowing planes to come over filled with Ebola patients so that he can finally even the score regarding slavery!

I had to listen to that one a couple of times before I actually believed that it had been said, but it was a true topic of conversation.

Unbelievable.

Yet it speaks to a bigger batch of real D.B.'s...

...political guys who always argue one way.

Now there may be people out there who believe that I can be labeled as a liberal or a Democrat...perhaps...but I am not dumb enough to think that whatever party I root for is always right.

There are a lot of people who don't care what their chosen party does - the other guy is always wrong.

For instance:

Do we negotiate with terrorists?

A while back a deal was brokered to free a captured American.

The social media went nuts!

It was called a huge mistake.

A little while later a captured American was beheaded!

"Why didn't we rescue him?" the same freaking guy screamed.

And that's what I think of when I think of this week's D.B. of the week.

Rush Limbaugh.

I think he could win the award a lot of the time...

...but he's not always wrong.

He was wrong this week.

Slavery.

Holy shit.

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